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...ent prepared by her merchants and, with the flourish of her famous signature and the stamp of the Royal Seal, granted a Charter to the Honourable Ea... ... wife for Gavin. His first marriage had been childless and Gavin’s reluctance to marry again had forced his father to take a hand in his son’s marit... ...ishing diet for the young mother, who was instructed to take light exercise each day in the fresh air, if weather conditions permitted. The next da... ...arrying out their pernicious trade and no doubt the Arab captains thought our merchant ship was a Royal Navy vessel.’ A more felicitous event was t... ...en recalled its strange history. This city in 1661 had formed part of the dowry of the Portuguese Princess, Catherine of Braganza, on her marriage t... ...purple with a faint, pink glow still in the west. The smell of jasmine and frangipani scented the air, cooled by a gentle breeze. Dark, wooded footh... ...t the Nawab’s family have a duplicate key, as I have not been asked to open the door.’ Helen was forced to accept this explanation, although she was... ...ingsong English. A gilt, high-backed chair had been brought into the room by one of the servants. Princess Muna placed this opposite the enthroned B... ...lly the young mothers. The little princess was a charming pupil and quick to learn the skills of nursing. She seemed to enjoy this break from the ha...
...tury India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mutiny: are the themes woven into the rich backcloth of ?THE CURSE OF KALI?. In this turbulent setting are a man and a woman whose destinies ...
...him as she felt the hot liquid trickle in her pants. She hung her head and forced her way into the toilet, where she stayed, sucking air, hiding in a ... ...ung her head and forced her way into the toilet, where she stayed, sucking air, hiding in a stall, until the bell rang for the afternoon classes. 4 S... ....” So Lacey slumped on the couch. The threadbare, grimy fur- niture joined forces with the silence to mock her as she relived the stinging taunts that... ...His energetic body flipping his bike, or arcing the basketball high in the air, or rolling around on the lawn, wres- tling with his friends, represent... ...sional workmates. They didn’t have friends. Roger’s father had gone into a nursing home and his mother had moved to the States to live with Roger’s br... ... to you, or you can come in to sign it. It will provide an advance against royalties.” “I’m sorry, I do not know what that means.” Amanda peered at he... ...e some money now , as a loan, so to speak, against 39 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE royalties when the book is published. You won’t actually start to receive r... ...eets, and thrilled to be riding in a limo like a celebrity, or a fairytale princess with her handsome prince charming. They arrived at ‘The Discount B... ...n’t work, and I’m left like a vegetable, strapped to a chair in some awful nursing home? she had wondered. Anger welled up in her because she knew tha...
...n. You cannot have something unless it’s opposite exists to balance it. All forces, all things in the Universe must balance. The Condition of com... ... something had to be there to make it split. That something was the Primeval Force called: Impetus. Impetus is the Basic Force that pushes things ... ... in the atmosphere there is almost nothing else except the Formless Medium of air. Is a fish aware that it is traveling through the Medium of water ... ...ravels? No. Are animals aware that they are traveling through the medium of Air as they travel? No. They take the Medium they travel through for... ...ad. The concept of a metal that is yellow being sacred and reserved only for royal use; comes from our seeing the dirty yellow color of lions stan... ...d. It became even weaker, more inefficient and more corrupt than the corrupt Royal regimes that still opposed it. Napoleon won all of his most bri... ... are born in uptown New York to wealthy parents and raised as a spoiled Jewess Princess, and are given by your parents: perfect genes, perfect skin, ... ...em. They end up in old-age folks homes. In retirement homes. In hospitals, nursing homes. Doddering around. With empty glassy-eyed stares of to... ... people: runs throughout all of Western Civilization. There are reasons why Princess Diana died so tragically, and early. She was trying to get th...
...dation, of equal travail; and as it was Christmas Eve, every click of the air conditioner turning on in the hot day or the furnace at night, every fl... ...he furnace at night, every flight of the pigeons from the nest behind the air conditioning unit, every thud of the cat jumping from a table, and she ... ...ality of the human ship of 7 billion from which some, deemed useless, were forced into madness by being discarded and left to drift aimlessly. ... ...mer in his midst, it seemed he would have gone for her with the fullest of force, there and then. Kenyon witnessed this adventitiously, acknowledged ... ...t prospect of a child of her own, something at last hers, belied a fear of nursing the creature on the streets--a fear all the more salient in a time... ... the flood water of Hurricane Katrina, the two of them praying their Hail Marys to whatever higher compassionate or wrathful creature it was that ha... ... they were, did not matter. No matter if one was a homeless wench or the princess of Monaco, a human being needed to be confirmed to exist by the pr... ...s their help was infrequent, the meals, for those who ate them, were like royal banquets. "You lookin' good. I'd trade'n everythin' on the taba for... ...ght. There, she dumps out the content of the bed pan and relieves herself royally in the garish space] Chapter Seven Denuded; clothes washed ...
.... Yang Lin, parting from their movement toward the steps that led toward the Royal Museum, began to walk to a distant place where a woman in a western... ... find an entrance into Disneyland to which there where no security guards to force a departure. He searched though his billfold for a calling card. He... ...s in their gross gluttony to have everything before death that the marvel of air rushing into one's lungs or the feel of a spring breeze brushing agai... ... mother and father from the window. He feels the plane move and rise in the air. He shuts his eyes briefly. Then he opens them widely in amazement.... ...aduate school. But he could not take the stagnation that scholarly pursuits forced him to endure and became the animated billiard ball being shot fro... ... afternoon when she was four. On that day she had become less interested in nursing a wounded bird and so began to play with her tiny plastic toy sol... ...er idea to get this Rita/Lily person to come with her but she didn't own the services so she couldn't tell her to not come. "Really, you know, it isn... ...e wore, how she shouldn't be wearing it since she shouldn't be acting like a princess or a tomboy, why she chose idiots to associate with as friends..... ...for buyers of these paintings so that way we won't offend that dainty little princess nose of yours." "I don't have a princess nose. I have a manly p...
...t with men T o time’s last goal descending.’ —Issac Williams. THE UNITED FORCE of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with th... ...ll her tasks till the long attendance upon me, and the consequent illness, forced her to spare herself—a little—a very little. Previously she had been... ...he other day in my mother’s desk, folded over the case of the medal of the Royal Humane Soci- ety, which Griff affected to despise, but which, when he... ...ismissed his ship, and his father was recommended to withdraw him from the service, as be- ing disqualified by want of nerve. Also, it was added more ... ...imself did not know how changed were his own ways from his kindly paternal air of confidence? All trust had been undermined, so that Clarence could no... ...ty, and he would hardly consent to take Griffith with him by the West- ern Royal Mail, warning him and all the rest of us that our expectations would ... ...and Martyn, whose ecstatic heels could be endured for the sake of the free air and the view. Of course we posted, and where there were severe hills we... ...uisa chimed in, “Oh no, you see this Peacock dame was only conducted, like Princess Micomicona and all the rest of them, to the feet of his peerless D... ...id she lived in a kind of dream. She fulfilled all that was wanted of her, nursing Clarence, wait- ing on me, ordering dinner, making the tea, and so ...
...Excerpt: The United Force of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with the aid of diaries and letters, the circumstances connected with Chantry House and my two dear elder brothers. Once this could not have been done withou...
...y which the nobles were to be kept down and prevented from threatening the royal power. This was seldom done by violence, but by giv- ing them employm... ...on soon broke out, Conde and the Coad- jutor quarrelled violently, and the royal promises made to both Princes and Parliament were eluded by the King,... ... of the first. A terrible battle in the Faubourg St. Antoine broke Conde’s force, and the remnant was only saved by Mademoiselle’s insisting on their ... ...had cared merely for their personal hatreds, not for the public good, were forced to accept. Conde, on his recovery, left France, and for a time fough... ...wy curls on her brow. I believe that the dear old lady made herself ill by nursing us two children day and night when we had the smallpox. She had a s... ...m. My father made him ride with us, and talked to him; and out in the open air, riding with the wind in our cheeks, and his plume streaming in the bre... ...ght she was dead, and would not move; and he dragged me on deck, where the air revived me, and where one by one the whole party appeared, spectacles o... ...and his eyes lit up, so that he reminded me of a young eagle. This was the Princess of Conde, who in the pride of her youthful beauty had been the las... ... suppose I smiled a little with my conscious bliss, for this strange young princess hastily asked: ‘Did you love him? I mean, before you were married....
... loss dreadfully. He sick- ened after that, and his wife was worn out with nursing and grief, and sank under the fever at once. Poor Kendal has never ... ...n bringing him home with him, and old Mrs. Meadows and her daughter almost forced him to accept the invitation.’ ‘They little guessed what the Colonel... ...h; Lucy, though not so tall, and with a small, clear, bright face, had the air of a little woman, and Sophia’s face might have befitted any age. ‘Yes,... ...hat kept out the sun, and 26 Yo n g e made it look chill and sad, and the air in it was close. The round library-table was loaded with desks, pocket-... ...cause, and sat perplexing herself whether it were worse to give way, or to force the girls to read Holy Scripture in such a mood. 30 Yo n g e Lucy ca... ...listen, and treading airily, yet with reverence that would have befitted a royal palace, Genevieve was ushered upstairs, and with heart- felt sweetnes... ... upon her step- mother. ‘My dear!’ said Albinia, ‘don’t you know that if a royal ti- ger were to eat up your cousin John in India, the Drurys would sa... ...his being high and silent. Your papa is bent on it, and you’ll live like a princess in India.’ ‘She takes you for your mother—she means papa, whispere... ... declare, when we overtook you in the street, she looked a perfect Spanish princess, in her black robes and great shady hat. You ought always to keep ...
...ide her a stout, black-eyed, round-faced lad, his ruddy cheeks and loutish air showing more rusticity than agreed with his keen, saucy expression, and... ...entre of the block adorned with a pediment and colonnade; but there was an air as if something ailed the place: the gardens were weedy, the glass door... ...her Jemmy; a very good boy, to be sure, but if he said so much of him, the Marys would be disappointed to see noth- ing but a little fiery Welshman. ... ...be so; but the sentiment is destroyed by its having been six months in the Royal Academy, number 16,136, and by seeing it down among the excursions in... ...y sudden agitation. Mary, though giddy and throbbing in ev- ery pulse, was forced to put a resolute check on herself— brace her limbs, steady her voic... ... venturing no word except the most matter-of-fact remark, quietly giv- ing force to the more favourable symptoms. Not till after Mr. Walby’s second vi... ...ertainly—or he would fly off like a sky-rocket at the first symptom of the princess.’ ‘Then I think we need not alter our plans. All that Mary’s fathe... ...acation. This was to be the break- up of the party; Mrs. Frost and the two Marys would resort to Dynevor T errace, Clara would return to school, and J... ... be killed by a lion. After much consideration, his majesty en- closed his royal highness in a tower, warranted wild-beast proof, and forbade the chas...
...cture of ‘the noble science’ indicated that the owner of the castle was of royal Stewart blood, but of a younger branch, and not yet admitted to the r... ...y of Glenuskie, a king’s grand- child, may not be disposed of, save by her royal kinsman, or by those who, woe worth the day! stand in his place. I we... ...ock; there, one sees no more bloodshed and spulzie; there, one need not be forced to treachery or violence. Oh, Uncle! my very soul is sick for Coldin... ...Albany, and his brother John, Earl of Buchan, now about to head a Scottish force, among whom Patrick Drummond intended to sail, to assist the French. ... ...best for both Malcolm and herself. By and by the dawn began to appear, the air of the March night became sharper, and in the distance the murmur and p... ...last night, he had rent himself away, and was riding in the frosty morning air beside the kinsman who had so strangely taken charge of him, and accomp... ...ized to Duchess Jaqueline for her husband’s taste for low company, neither princess wished to forego the chance of amusement; and a brilliant cavalcad... ...r French than most of the nobles. Malcolm felt as averse as did the French princesses to burgher wealth and splendour, and his mind had not opened to ... ...f the Luxemburgs is in arms against Clairette’s fancy for those beg- garly nursing Sisters; so it drives him mad to hear her say she only succoured yo...
...the banished T arquinius Superbus and his son Sextus, and gathered all his forces together, to advance upon the city of Rome. The great walls, of old ... ...6, saved his whole band by his sole exertions. He had been defeated by the forces of Edward I. at Methven, and had lost many of his friends. His littl... ...rough the thick forests that clothed the hillside. In the stillness of the air, at daybreak, the Phocian guards of the path were startled by the crack... ...n the distance, had not then become almost uninhabitable from pestilential air, but was rich and fertile, full of highly cultivated small farms, where... ...he called the jarls away, and returning humbly to his palace, took off his royal robes, and came again barefoot and in sackcloth to the church door, w... ...nniless pilgrims who arrived at Jerusalem in need of shelter, and often of nursing and healing. The good monks not only fed and housed them, but did t... ...est in England. This whole glittering army, at their head the King’s great royal standard bearing the golden lilies of France quartered with the lions... ...was Helen Kottenner, the lady who had the charge of her little daugh- ter, Princess Elizabeth, and to her she confided her desire that the crown might... ...hose family it was probably needful to propitiate. She took off the little princess Elizabeth’s mourning for her father and dressed her in red and gol...
...who were the more nearly related to Henry, and the more inclined to uphold royalty, while York was con- sidered as the champion of the people. The gen... ...t them, madam,” said Lady Whitburn. “Now, the least that can be done is to force yonder malapert lad and his father into keeping his contract to her, ... ... have no call here!” And without further ceremony she had flown out of the royal presence. Margaret of Anjou, naturally offended, and never politic, h... ..., madam,” quietly said Salisbury. “But you are in your own Castle, and can force him to keep faith. No contract, forsooth! I hate your mincing South C... ...ton, as she was not put there to take the vows, but only to be cured. Long nursing had made Grisell unreasonable, and she cried as much as she dared o... ...which, be it observed, really meant absence from the foul, close, feverish air of the castle, and all the evil odours of the court. T o the lady he th... ...t blood That forty thousand lives could yield. —Southey, Funeral Song of Princess Charlotte. GRISELL FROM THE FIRST took her part in the Apothecary’... ...tly than before he murmured, “Thanks, sweet Eleanor.” The move in the open air had partly revived him, partly made him feverish, and he continued to m... ... lady. “Are you English?” “So please your Highness, I am.” “An exile?” the Princess added kindly. “Yes, madame. All my family perished in our wars, an...
...al, the bonnet she had thrown off was of the coarsest straw, but her whole air declared her the daughter of that lordly house; and had gold and rubies... ...ple village maid, Beauty and truth, a violet in the shade. She takes their forced welcome and their wiles For her own truth, and lifts her head and sm... ...lo! what’s this? A lot of wooden 35 Yonge benches with their heels in the air. How is this? Have you been setting up a charity school in my room?’ ‘I... ...one of the cleverest women on earth. She formed her niece, made the match, forced her forward into the very highest society—never were such delightful... ... raised its crested head in sudden alarm, its train sweeping the ground in royal splendour. Arthur, no unpicturesque figure in his loose brown coat, s... ...ewil- dering, and unlike what I fancied.’ ‘Because you are so like a fairy princess yourself. Are you sure you have not a talisman ring!’ ‘I think I h... ...in seeing the look that recalls Helen. If Helen was here, how she would be nursing her!’ John saw his brother no more that evening—only heard of Viole... ...d or ap- proved; but in her own county she was used to be the unde- niable princess of her circle, and she could not go out with- out trying to stand ... ...e in a key too audible for such a party. Presently, ‘He has got her to the Royal Academy. She has gone forthwith to the Prae-Raffaelites. Oh! she is w...
... trait, but the condition of it seems to be justified by hints in the Port Royal memoirs, respecting Maubuisson and others which Mere Angelique reform... ...Merle, belonging to an unfortunate Angevin noble, who had fallen under the royal displeasure, and they had enjoyed court favour up to the present gene... ...e. Even then he moved about the gay scene with so distressed and morose an air that he was evidently either under the influence of a scruple of consci... ..., let Lady Walwyn array her as she would, whatever she wore bore a nunlike air. Her silken farthingales hung like serge robes, her ruffs looked like m... ...m that Madame Marguer- ite desired that he should be presented to her. The princess was standing by her pale sister-in-law, Elizabeth of Austria, who ... ..., and then, after bring- ing her to the side of the chair of state, he was forced to release her with the mere whisper of ‘Pardon, Mademoiselle;’ and ... ...ing for worlds!’ However, Eustacie was enchanted. It was like a prince and princess in Mere Perinne’s fairy tales. Could they go like a shepherd and s... ...tfully gazing at the window, and now and then rapidly winking as though to force back a rebellious tear. The cousins had been bred up together in the ... ...had been completely worn out, a few days of comfort, entire rest, and good nursing restored her. Noemi dressed her much like herself, in a black gown,...
...ed from himself. The Catechism was repeated, and a comment on the Sun- day Services read aloud. The Gospel was that on the taking the lowest place, an... ...ig- ure very pretty, and full of quiet grace and refinement, and her whole air and expression denoting a serene, unruffled, affectionate happiness, ye... ... ‘a’ long or short? Then that’s right. I had such a line in my head, I was forced to write it down. Is not it a capital subject this time?” “The devot... ...meaning of this?” exclaimed he, scolding himself, as, sit- ting up, he was forced to rest his head on his shaking hand. “You are still faint, dear Nor... ...so don’t be uneasy, pray.” “Let me hear,” he said, and his whole voice and air showed him to be entirely roused. “There is injury? What is it—” He con... ... I am much better than I could have imagined possible.” “And you have been nursing me all the time! Papa, you must let me take care of you now. Do pra... ...ieve her.” “I would not do that for the world.” “Especially after her kind nursing of me, and even, with more reason, it would not be becoming in us t... ...inish, that she seemed fit to act the fairy, where Flora was the enchanted princess. Flora greeted her sisters eagerly, while Meta introduced her brot... ...miscalculated the chances of interruption. Meta was lingering to track the royal highway of some giant ants to their fir-leaf hillock, when they were ...
...ked on “Joe” as a youth, for he was some years over thirty, with a mingled air of keenness, refinement, and alacrity about his slight but active form,... ...nement, and alacrity about his slight but active form, altogether with the air of some imple- ment, not meant for ornament but for use, and yet abso- ... ...ure this, and Janet did not approve, so there seemed to have been a battle royal, in which Jock would have been the victor, if his little brother had ... ... a man of him if he is not overdone with books. I make it a point never to force my children.” “No, that you don’t,” said Caroline, with a dangerous s... ...s get the prize for our flowers. We had the first prizes for hyacinths and forced roses last week, and we should have had the first for forced cucumbe... ...is heart, the old King Chanticleer of the yard, made his exit, draped in a royal red paper robe and a species of tinsel crown, out of which his red fa... ...ously beautiful, and there this poor little Elvira de Menella lived like a princess with a court of black slaves. Just fancy what it must be to her to... ...ual romantic dramas were all turned by her into homage to one and the same princess. She never knew or cared whether she were goddess or fairy, Greek ... ...girls down to Belforest. After the first few days it was rather a pleasant nursing. There was never any real alarm; indeed, Armine was the least ill o...
...r the holidays. After all the rest, she has had the measles last and worst, and they don?t know what to do with her, for she came from the asylum for officers? daughters, and has no home at all, and they must go away to have the house purified. They can?t take her with them, for their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers,...
... sum into his pocket. But when the Com- mander-in-Chief came home, and was forced, in spite of him- self, to appoint Lieutenant-General Webb to the co... ...tended he should be beat at Wynendael, and sent him purposely with a small force, hoping that he might be knocked on the head there. Esmond and Frank ... ...s than three successive nights in London in the next year. Here, as he lay nursing himself, ubiquitous Mr. Holt reap- peared, and stopped a whole mont... ...n of the most precious part of himself—his money—which he sent over to the royal exiles. Mr. Tunstal, who was in the Prince’s service, was twice or th... ... being asked by the Colonel, saluted him, and said that he belonged to the Royal Cravats. From his way of saying “Royal Cravat,” Esmond at once knew t... ...mineer, and they frighten us with kingdom come; and they wear a sanctified air in public, and expect us to go down on our knees and ask their blessing... ...aught you to dance, Cousin Beatrix?” says the Colonel. She laughed out the air of a minuet, and swept a low curtsy, coming up to the recover with the ... ...east one that she wouldn’t have broke her heart in trying to do. She was a princess, though she had scarce a shilling to her fortune; and one of her s... ...ed in wit, and favored in person, that he might pretend to the hand of any Princess in Europe. “Should you like the Duke for a cousin?” says Mr. Secre...
...hopes the influence of a prejudice, almost as natural to him as his native air, will not be found to have greatly affected the sketch he has attempted... ... a peculiar species of enchantment for the youthful ear of the author, the force of which is not even now entirely spent; some others are sufficiently... ...d surely may repine)— Why didst thou wed a country maid, When some fair princess might be thine? “Why didst thou praise my hum’ble charms, And, ... ...re! Like the poor plant that, from its stem Divided, feels the chilling air. “Nor, cruel Earl! can I enjoy The humble charms of solitude; Your ... ...ning—gives no more trouble than a very peasant—pays his shot like a prince royal—looks but at the sum total of the reckoning, and does not know what d... ...ands against these five angels, that I go not up to the Hall to-morrow and force Tony Foster to introduce me to his fair guest?” “I accept your wager,... ...pidated appearance of a dis- solved monastic house into the semblance of a royal palace. A mystery was observed in all these arrangements: the work- m... ...edina, come over, incognito, to adjust the quarrel betwixt Philip and that princess. T ressilian was angry, and expostulated with the artist on the va... ...d the sallies of a temper which was both jealous and despotic. She was the nursing-mother of her people, but she was also the true daughter of Henry V...
... liberal a historian avows, a poor romance-writer dares not disown. But he hopes the influence of a prejudice, almost as natural to him as his native air, will not be found to have greatly affected the sketch he has attempted of England?s Elizabeth....
...ce. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that... ...was clear, there was still a crystalline, non- luminous light in the under air. Aaron rummaged in his shed at the bottom of the garden, and found a sp... ...echoed, ironical over the word love. She stood for some moments, trying to force his attention. Then she went back to her place. Marjory had brought f... ..., under the trees, it was very dark. But a lamp glimmered in front of the “Royal Oak.” This was a low white house sunk three steps below the highway. ... ... sort of weather-cock, there in the middle of the dark road out- side the “Royal Oak.” But as he turned, he caught sight of a third exit. Almost oppos... ... unhappily married, and away in India weeping herself thinner; another was nursing her babies in Streatham. Jim, the hope of the house, and Julia, now... ....” “It’s difficult!” cried Julia. “It’s difficult! I feel they all want to force me to decide. It’s cruel.” “Oh, men with their beastly logic, their e... ...ou, tout doux. Il y a unpommier doux. T rois belles princesses Vole vole mon coeur, vole! T rois belles p... ...her so much.” “And him?” “Mr. French!—Well, he’s perhaps a little like the princess who felt the pea through three feather-beds. But he can be quite w...
...he War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that evening....
...Contents CHAPTER I: THE BLUE BALL ..............................................................................................4 CHAPTER II: ROYAL OAK.................................................................................................. 16 CHAPTER III: ?THE LIGHTED TREE? .............................................................................. 25 ...
...Esmond, on his part, was conspicuous for his attachment and loyalty to the Royal cause and person: and the King being at Oxford in 1642, Sir George, w... ...e to call his infidelity; Jack Churchill, Frank Esmond’s lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Foot-guards, getting the company which Esmond vacated, wh... ...er leaving Court was jealousy of Frank Esmond’s wife: others, that she was forced to retreat after a great battle which took place at Whitehall, betwe... ...’s collar in an instant, and the next moment the brute’s heels were in the air, and he fell on the stones with a thump. “Y ou hulking coward!” says he... ...ake way there,” says he (he spoke in a high shrill voice, but with a great air of authority). “Make way, and let her 41 Thackeray ladyship’s carriage... ...sty’s party should take place in this country; and my lord was to head the force in our county. Of late he had taken a greater lead in affairs than be... ...; and she tossed up her head (which hung down commonly) with the mien of a princess. “Hey-day!” says my lord, who was standing by the fire- place—inde... ...d the Tower; and St. James’s; and the play; and the Prince George, and the Princess Anne—didn’t you, Trix?” “They are both very fat, and smelt of bran... ...t her. We take such goodness, for the most part, as if it was our due; the Marys who bring ointment for our feet get but little thanks. Some of us nev...